Spark turns the electric back on at General Motors

GM joins electric vehicle revolution with battery-powered car after years of speculation that its previous attempt was a deliberate failure

Made by GM, the all-electric Chevrolet Spark will hit the roads in 2013

The latest car to join the battery-powered brigade has been announced. The
all-electric Chevrolet Spark will hit the roads in 2013 and represents a
turnaround by General Motors, the company that owns Chevrolet.

GM was one of the first major car makers to experiment with electric cars when
it introduced the EV1 in 1996. That vehicle was discontinued just three
years later and many were destroyed, a move that inspired the film Who
Killed the Electric Car?, which alleged a conspiracy among car makers and
the oil companies to discredit electric vehicles. GM has always denied the
allegations and the all-new Spark seems to answer its critics.

Based on a petrol-powered supermini of the same name, the electric Spark will
be sold in America and other selected countries. Britain could be one, and a
spokesman for Chevrolet UK said he hoped to have the car in the country in
two